Michael Caine Quotes

I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

Michael Caine

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• Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Better
  • motivation

• I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Age
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Mom

• Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Power
  • Man
  • Moral

• I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.

  

  Walid Muallem
  • Good
  • Think
  • Secretary

• I've got to say, my parents have always been very supportive. I used to sit in my bedroom and read every liner note and listened to records. My parents are rock fans.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Parents
  • Rock
  • Always

• I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • House

• I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.

  

  Warren Spector
  • History
  • Myself
  • Journey

• I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Starting

• There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Money
  • Success
  • Feeling

• We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Time
  • Care
  • Baby

• I love seeing women looking great in my clothes. I don't care who they are. I don't quantify people by celebrity.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • People
  • Women
  • Celebrity

• When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Up
  • First
  • Class

• I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• Societies in which men were unwilling to dispose of themselves in war were societies that usually got disposed of. Societies that were protected were protected by killers, which is why I call the traditional role of men the role of killer-protector.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Why
  • War

• Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Women
  • Reality

• If America is about anything, she is about freedom. We have seen in the burgeoning Department of Homeland Security and at our airports and in the color-coded alerts the beginning of the erosion of that freedom.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • She
  • America
  • Freedom

• An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Men
  • Power
  • Justice

• Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes.

  

  Learned Hand
  • May
  • Patriotic

• One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya.

  

  Akhmad Kadyrov
  • Work
  • Organization

• I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.

  

  Anna Torv
  • Wonder

• There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a Dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And You are but a Thought - a vagrant Thought, a useless Thought, a homeless Thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Life
  • God
  • Dream

• Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Dream
  • Struggle
  • Innovation

• I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Dream
  • Impossible
  • Inspiring